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Four die as train rams bus in Gazipur

Four die as train rams bus in Gazipur

-- 2022-07-24 12:41:39

Four people have died and at least 15 others have been injured after a bus was rammed by a train on the Maizpara rail crossing in Gazipur’s Sreepur, bdnews24.com reports. The incident took plac...

Two crushed under train in Gazipur

Two crushed under train in Gazipur

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-24 11:15:38

Two people were killed and ten others injured when a train hit a bus on an unauthorised railway level crossing at Sripur of Gazipur district on Sunday morning, said police. The deceased were identifi...

Amend Arbitration Act to boost investment, jobs

Amend Arbitration Act to boost investment, jobs

JUBAIR HASAN 2022-07-24 09:39:52

Amending the loose-knit Arbitration Act 2001 is urgent for promoting investment and job generation commensurate with a higher-grade economic status of Bangladesh, experts say as they find the law dila...

Greece to hire Bangladeshi farm hands

Greece to hire Bangladeshi farm hands

FE REPORT 2022-07-24 09:37:22

The Greek Parliament has approved a deal signed between Bangladesh and Greece paving the way for recruiting 4,000 agricultural workers annually, the foreign ministry said on Friday. It will also help...

Internet banking booms on 81pc turnover growth

Internet banking booms on 81pc turnover growth

JASIM UDDIN HAROON 2022-07-24 09:27:13

Internet banking, which found a blessing in disguise during the pandemic-enforced restricted movements of people, now makes a quantum leap on an 81.5-percent turnover growth, year on year. As per lat...

Minister says government aims to provide safe, healthy fish for all

Minister says government aims to provide safe, healthy fish for all

-- 2022-07-23 23:00:21

Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim has said that the government’s plan is to ensure supply of safe and healthy fish to everyone. The minister came up with the statement at a press...

CU expels two students over sexual harassment

CU expels two students over sexual harassment

-- 2022-07-23 22:44:29

University of Chittagong (CU) has expelled two students with alleged links to the sexual harassment of a female student. They are Md Azim, a second-year history student at the university, and Nurul A...

Tajuddin Ahmad remembered on his birthday

Tajuddin Ahmad remembered on his birthday

-- 2022-07-23 22:17:04

Tajuddin Ahmed, the first prime minister of Bangladesh, was remembered on his 97th birth anniversary on Saturday, according to BSS and UNB. The national leader was the prime minister the provisional...

I will offer tea if BNP leaders come to seize my office, says PM

I will offer tea if BNP leaders come to seize my office, says PM

-- 2022-07-23 21:31:41

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday said she will offer tea to the BNP leaders and give them a patient hearing even if they come to seize her office (Prime Minister's Office) as she believes in d...

Imported Indian crude oil reaches Narsingdhi amid fuel crisis

Imported Indian crude oil reaches Narsingdhi amid fuel crisis

-- 2022-07-23 20:42:56

The maiden shipment of 2.5 million litres of crude oil imported from India reached the country on Saturday, aiming to tackle the ongoing fuel crisis. Representatives of Bangladesh and India formally...

Two liquid oxygen plants to be established: Health Minister

Two liquid oxygen plants to be established: Health Minister

-- 2022-07-23 19:25:12

Health Minister Zahid Maleque said two liquid oxygen plants will be established in the country for more development of the health sector. "One of the plants will be built in Manikganj while another i...

Dengue cases surge across country, one more patient dies

Dengue cases surge across country, one more patient dies

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-07-23 18:41:51

One more dengue patient died while a total of 67 dengue patients were hospitalised across the country in the last 24 hours till Saturday morning. An official at the Health Emergency Operation Centre...

CU sexual harassment: Arrestees claim to be BCL activists

CU sexual harassment: Arrestees claim to be BCL activists

-- 2022-07-23 17:20:04

The four men arrested on charges of sexually harassing a student at Chattogram University claimed to be activists of the Bangladesh Chhatra League, according to the Rapid Action Battalion. However, R...

Bangladesh logs 446 COVID cases, four deaths in a day

Bangladesh logs 446 COVID cases, four deaths in a day

-- 2022-07-23 17:09:04

Bangladesh has recorded 446 cases of COVID-19 in a day, taking the overall tally of infections to 2,001,345. The death toll from the disease climbed by four in 24 hours to 29,262, according to the la...

Oil train derails in Kushtia

Oil train derails in Kushtia

-- 2022-07-23 16:06:46

The engine and three carriages of an oil freight train have derailed in Kushtia’s Mirpur Upazila. The accident caused nearly all of the oil to spill from one of the train’s containers. Th...

Accept demand or face ouster: Fakhrul to AL

Accept demand or face ouster: Fakhrul to AL

-- 2022-07-23 15:37:18

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday warned that Awami League will be ousted from power through a street movement if it fails to accept their demand for election-time governme...

Work for people who pay for your salaries: PM to public servants

Work for people who pay for your salaries: PM to public servants

-- 2022-07-23 15:35:11

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday asked the public servants to devote themselves to the welfare of the people who pay taxes for their salaries, comforts and luxuries.  "All of you are get...

Wasfia becomes first Bangladeshi to scale K2

Wasfia becomes first Bangladeshi to scale K2

-- 2022-07-23 15:14:29

Wasfia Nazreen has become the first Bangladeshi to scale Pakistan's K2, the second-highest mountain in the world, UNB reports. The 39-year-old Wasfia completed this mission with 11 other summiteers f...

Rains likely to cool off Bangladesh

Rains likely to cool off Bangladesh

-- 2022-07-23 15:07:03

Showers in parts of Bangladesh are likely to bring relief from the scorching hot weather in the next 24 hours, according to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department, UNB reports. “Light to mode...

Protesters block road as bus runs over student in Gazipur

Protesters block road as bus runs over student in Gazipur

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-23 13:30:25

A school student died after she was run over by a bus in Gazipur’s Tongi. The accident occurred around 7:30am on Saturday on Siraj Uddin Sarker Road in the Bonmala Tekpara area. Afterwards, agi...

RAB arrests four over sexual harassment of Chattogram University student

RAB arrests four over sexual harassment of Chattogram University student

-- 2022-07-23 12:10:03

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested four people on charges of sexually harassing a female student of Chattogram University, bdnews24.com reports. They were apprehended during a series of raids in...

Fisheries week starts today with focus on safe fish production

Fisheries week starts today with focus on safe fish production

FE REPORT 2022-07-23 11:14:17

The National Fisheries Week begins today (Saturday) with the aim of making the country's people more aware of and involved in increasing safe fish production. President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister...

Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah no more

Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah no more

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-23 09:30:29

Parliament Deputy Speaker Fazle Rabbi Miah died at a New York hospital. He was 76. Fazle Rabbi was admitted to Mount Sinai hospital in New York for cancer treatment nine months ago, reports bdnews24....

BPC launches Padma Bridge tour package

BPC launches Padma Bridge tour package

FE REPORT 2022-07-23 08:42:37

The Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) launched Padma Bridge tour package on Wednesday to facilitate travel of holidaymakers centring the country's largest bridge. State Minister for Civil Aviat...

Bangladesh welcomes ICJ ruling in Rohingya genocide case

Bangladesh welcomes ICJ ruling in Rohingya genocide case

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-07-22 22:01:23

Bangladesh has welcomed the ruling delivered by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Myanmar's objections to a genocide case over Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya minority. The prelim...

BNP the main patron of communal evil force: Hasan Mahmud

BNP the main patron of communal evil force: Hasan Mahmud

-- 2022-07-22 21:32:43

Information and Broadcasting Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud has said the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is the patron of all communal evil forces in the country. He also warned that those who patronise...

AL's ‘mega corruption’ led country to edge of disaster: Fakhrul

AL's ‘mega corruption’ led country to edge of disaster: Fakhrul

-- 2022-07-22 21:28:57

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Friday alleged that the Awami League government has led the country to the brink of a dark abyss, through 'mega' corruption in mega projects. In a...

‘Power crisis will not last long’

‘Power crisis will not last long’

-- 2022-07-22 21:15:46

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said the ongoing power cuts in the country will not last long. "We're sorry to our consumers for the current crisis and seek th...

Parjatan Corporation launches ‘Dream Padma Bridge Tour’ package

Parjatan Corporation launches ‘Dream Padma Bridge Tour’ package

-- 2022-07-22 21:11:25

Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (BPC) on Friday launched a special tour package, titled ‘Dream Padma Bridge Tour’, targeting the huge tourism potential of the recently inaugurated Padma Br...

Protester Rony prevented from entering Kamalapur station again

Protester Rony prevented from entering Kamalapur station again

-- 2022-07-22 20:59:49

Railway police have again prevented Mohiuddin Rony from entering the station by blocking the main gate of Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka. He, along with some young people, went to the station on...